Paulina Sophia Sommer was born in 1994 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and grew up with three siblings in a family of musicians. At the age of four she started playing the violin,
getting lessons from private teachers at first and later at different institutions for example
the Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium in Frankfurt or the Conservatoire de Versailles. After
graduating from high school which had it’s focus on music, she started studying with
Professor Anne Shih at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz.